Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1887-03-10
CURRENT TOPICS.


THERE Is machine out for making An
| ger-nails almond -shaped.
THERE are s.ooo,ooo tuberoscs ON on,
plantation at San Mateo, Fla.
| bors under sixteen years Of age can moi
ouy tobacco ut Grass Valley, Cal
ANOTHER Washington monument is pro
posed, 10 be paid for by the nation.
| brckwnEAr cakes, TO be fashionable
should not be larger than trade dollar.
! ihE senate passed fifty-scvcn pension
4 day. WV ''"''
FLORIDA MOTHER has two children. on,
pamed Jefferson Davis, the other Abraham
Lincoln.
| JULIA TAILOR, colored, expired a few
ahys ago IN 81 Louis, at the great age OF
| Ill years. 4, "
nome for Drunken and Dcprnved
women Is philanthropic enterprise now
unuer consideration in ST. Louis.
MACHINE has been invented that print,
tne sides and ends of boxes at tho same
unc AT the rate OF :, 800 per hour.
NEW YORK Italians are trying TO secure
= site In Central Park. near the bust OF
Mezzini, for statue of Geribaldi.
| ALEXANDER b. coxr, JR., OF New York
Is said to be tho biggest man at Yale, hi.
weight being given as 34l pounds.
Mrs. STEPHEN d. ELKixs recently pre-
sented library consisting of 500 worth OF
DOCKS to the town Of Davis, w. Va.
SECRETARY LAMONT gets the handsome
salary of 5000, President Cleveland pay,
ing him $500 out OF his own pocket.
The value of manufactured nrtioIe.
In this country surpasses the value OF
those made In Great Britain by more thau
$7o0,0oo.0oO
IT being tclcrably certain that tho world
is not TO come TO an end before the wear
1000, New York may yet have Grant
monument.
In regard TO the present situation In
Europe General wolsclcy says: "a vas,
and appalling war Is certainty in the
near future"
IHK latest distinguished lady who think
OF becoming an actress is Ethel Chase, the
daughter of Ex-Governor Spraguc, OF
Rhode Island
NEBRASKA man who recently died nj
the age OF lo2 was shipwrcckcd many
years ago and swan nine miles with "A wo-
man on his back
THERE have been just admitted to tho
poor-house OF Beaver County, Pa, a man
and his wife aud five children, three of
whom were triplets.
A NEW pocket camera has been invented.
IL rs enclosed In am ordinary silver watch
case, and is said 10 do very good work by
the dry-plate process.
CArTAfx RoBgKr w. ANpEyws Of Boston.
who Is In his ninety seventh year, wants :
TO challenge any man OF his age TO match
at walking or jumping.
JUNE 81 has been decided upon az tho
date for national celebration of the
Queens Jubilee day In England, and it
will be declared holiday.
Mrs. KATE CHASE is making arrange.
mcnts for the publication OF the biography
of her father, the late Chief Justice, which
she has undertaken 10 write.
PAoLa, KAN, has a natural gas spouter
that blew plumber into the roof of a
derrick, nearly killing him. He was test
ing the pressure and found out
TESSEssEE's Senate has rejected bill
appropriating Al 500 for a monument 20
George Peabody, through whose bencv-
olence the State was great gamer.
Born Carl Schurz and Zen Butler are
suffering from severe falls on the side
walk, the former having slipped in New
York and the latter in Philadelphia.
Ex-GovEKSoR CURTIN was recently called
upon by soldiers widow, for whom he
had secured a pension and given n half
dozen kisses in public for the assistance hs
had rendered.
AREcENT wager between two Viennese
elected the fact that, for the completion OF
a winter overcoat, ''less than ~, 600 stitchest
are required, viz. 1868, which is a pretty
good guess after all.
JOHN Pencil, Of jackson, Mo, purchased
coffins for himself and wife ten years ago
which he keeps In the upper story Of his
house. The old man frequently gets into
his 70 sec how IL fits.
Mrs. CLEVELAND probably receives tho
most letters Of any woman ia the United
States, and Mrs. Jenncss Miller, the leader
Of the dress reform movement, ia said 70
have the next largest post
a FARMER Of Otter Tail County, who Wis
tied the Minnesota Legislature recently.
made but one remark during his stay.
aud that was this "By gosh I'm a
statesman myself alongside OF these fei-
lows"
THERE is a cat doctor, who runs a drug
store In Washington, who Is doing thirty
ing business by allcviating the ills Of tho
feline and canine races. He has the high
est class Of callers Of any professional man
In the city.
RICHARD PESSisTkS, actor, has just been
admitted 10 the Forrest Home in Philadel-
phia. In 1913 Pennistan drew 10000 in
the Royal Havana Lottery, but his good
luck was his ruin, and for 4 numbsr Of
years no has boen penniless.
BAN JoSEs says: "ff wanted 20 get
good square Judgment on something I
had done had rather go 20 a newspaper Of
flee for it than any other court Of justice.
know the justice Of journals, their integ-
rity and the purity Of their motives"
Moss 8IBsON, y negro, eighty seven
years old, walks % Washington. Ga, and
back daily, distance Of eight miles, car.
ryng the mail for the family that owned
him before the war, thus earning board
and clothing for himself and his old wife.
TBs Pennsylvania hair stcsler Is again
abroad His latest victim Is Annie Her
ring, Of Reading, who, going out Of tho
kitchen door ~ o'clock ia tho morning,
was knocked down. She tainted aud
when she recovered found she had lost
hor thick brown locks.
MoNsTgR green turtles, some weighing
~ much as 800 pounds each, frequent the
beach at Smithville, n. C., at the mouth Of
Cape Fear river, and all the way down 10
Fort Casweil, four miles below the town.
People eat their eggs, but do NOT eat the
turtles.
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